A Few Flowers

I added some flowers to my alt flute case. They look a bit like shamrock, don't they? :-)
That's just two chain stitches and three simple ones.

This era after the university exams is a bit frantic and chaotic as far as my creations. In addition to the princess pattern and wood engraving that you could have seen here, there was a try of kumihimo, macramé and I did a bit of the gryffin pocket.
Disorganisation comes with much free time :-)

Wood Engraving

Today I found something I had been searching for a long long time. A gouge (I hope it's the right expression, the dictionary is not very concrete as far as technical vocab..).
Anyway I finally bought it for an incredibly low price, I didn't expect that as I'd seen a U-shaped one which was quite expensive. But in the near future I'll buy that one as well, as a reward for university exams from parents :-)

It requires patience but if you don't want to have the result too soon you'll be surprised how easy it is, compared to knife.
Working with wood's just pure pleasure.
Everytime I find out something like this , I fall in love again :-)

My First Princess Pattern Ever

This is something I've always wanted to make. A princess pattern. I thought it's a mastership to create it. I wanted a kind of course of pattern drawing but there's nothing like that in our area. So once I just got all of my courage and, drew a pattern on a paper and sewed this.

I know it's not perfect, I just needed to be able to sew a fitting dress without someone's help, it can serve as a draft, I usually have no problems fitting clothes, just have to have something to start with.
When I drew my first pattern, I hope now it will be easier. I've understood already what it's about, I'll show an explanation soon, as I'll probably be making a dress for my sister.
It reminds me of the moment I've first woven a french braid on myself. It seems the hardest thing until you try to do it.
Very happy today!

Red Flags

First blue meter (of fabric:-D ) is finished, now I got down to the red chunk.
The pattern has been drawn from majority by my boyfriend, great, cause I hate that :-P

I folded them all at once, on one hand it might be faster, on the other hand it's too late for a machine noise..

Small Flags

I have the first flags done. This is how I proceed. As I said this pattern is more simple than the previous that I had made. It has more to do with origami, which I'm quite good at:-P

I fold two longer sides, by sight, width of half the shortest side.

I cut the pike in a bit smaller angle than is of the triangle in the center. It's better to cut it after folding because it doesn't fray out and deform while folding that much.

I sew the folded part and as I have really many pieces I don't snip the thread and I get a continuous belt of these. I solve the threads in the end offhand. I just cut it, no lock, no tie, it will be places inside.

And the origami part - I fold the corners along the drawn line and the whole unsewn side according to this line.

Sewing with a lock on both sides - this part will be stressed.

The first eight flags. Four flags take about half an hour.

Small Flags Pattern

I have a task - to make little triangular flags (hung on a cord) to limit our perform space. Many they'll be.
I did this some time ago but with a different pattern. This one is very simple, just a triangle without a tip.

I want to vary blue, red and yellow triangles.

Updo for Today - Three Loops

This is my favourite one - a high ponytail turned into three braids, just this time I ended them up in the middle.

Afterwards I folded them and fastened with a elastic band so that the rubber bands were hidden. And voilá, this is it.

Lamp-Shade

I wanted to make a shade for my table lamp. It has a very strong bull in it and it's uncomfortable if you glimpse the bull directly.

I bought this napkin in a cheap shop. I traced a lamp - the circle in the center, and cut two rectangles.

Then the rectangles were sewn together and added to the circle. I hid the tying inside.
I know that's not very safe, but I promis I'll keep an eye on it. Anyway, it's better than the tissue and sello tape, that was there before:-D

Poi Sacks

I finished the poi: turned them over and stuffed with millet. Loose filling is the best, I was thinking about flour as well but this one surely won't penetrate through the seams.

Here are both poi, with elaborated handles. These are for two persons, as this type of twirling needs only one poi.

And even if I don't know if I'll get some extra money for this I can't leave out sacks:)
Two same rectangles, down in the shape of the ball with some cm added.

I joined a strip of fabric..

..turned it down and sewed again. Room for the lace. No machine embroidery, this time I differ with colour of the lace (according to poi).

These are my sacks:-) I put two loops of ribbon to each one, it's easy-to-close fastening.
This is how the poi will be delivered to their owner.

New Type of Poi

I got a request to make poi for belly dance with veil. I had been studying the original and I hope I understood.
This is the second poi - I know how to do it already:-)
I cut this shape out of a gentle light fabric. I found out that I'm unable to zigg-zagg sharp edges - this one will be inside the poi.

Straining a bit is necessary and makes the curly border. I folded a few milimeters to get a smooth line.

Quite good result:-) Folding the seams is easy as the fabric winds itself.

I made this pattern just out of the knowledge of the ball's perimeter. Fortunatelly it worked:) Four pieces, I marked their upper parts to recognise them - the fabric had quite long nap, it's visible when you complete the pieces wrong..

These are the panels - I sewed two and two ovals together. I prepared a plastic band and put it up, the napkin was put down with a loop for the veil.

What should be outside must be sewn inside:-) I sewed along the outline and left some centimeters free - so I didn't have to stuff the whole napkin inside.